Unexpected search results

Newly added or enabled autocompletions should be visible within a few hours.
If a few hours have passed and you still don't see any autocompletions, make sure you have included an appropriate set of sites in the Sites page for your CSE. Autocompletions will not currently be generated based on sites included indirectly via annotation feeds. Google generates autocompletions based on popular queries for search engines. If you've set your search engine to search the entire web, autocompletions other than custom autocompletions you add yourself may not be available to display.

If more than three promotions are triggered by a search, Custom Search will select three promotions at random to display. To ensure a specific promotion appears, make sure that you don't create too many promotions triggered by the same query term.

If you're seeing more results than you expect, make sure you've specified that you want to search only the sites you provide, not the entire web, in your Custom Search Engine control panel.

If you are not seeing a particular result that you expect:

Make sure that you have included the result or the pattern matching the result in your Custom Search Engine. Beware of spelling mistakes!

Make sure the page you expect to see is in the Google index. A simple way of checking is to do a search on Google with the site: operator along with a few words on that page as a search query. For more information about how Google crawls and indexes pages, all of our resources for site owners can be found at Google's Webmaster Central.